Color
#3cbeaa
#3cbeaargb(60, 190, 170)hsl(171, 52%, 49%)oklch(0.727 0.115 180.5)Colors that go with #3cbeaa
Charcoal, Hot Pink and Midnight Blue lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #3cbeaa: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Hot Pink #ff69b4
complementaryshippedHot Pink sits directly opposite #3cbeaa on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Confluent's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #3cbeaa, as the accent.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped5 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Fresh Juice put Mustard Yellow beside #3cbeaa, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #3cbeaa in 4 real palettes, including Khan Academy's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #3cbeaa in 17 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Resort, as the text colour against it.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped4 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Fresh Juice put Tomato beside #3cbeaa, as the lead colour.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedDesigners have shipped Wheat with #3cbeaa: 5 real palettes, including Resort and Pine & Birch, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #3cbeaa
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #3cbeaa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.3:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.14:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #3cbeaa as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #3cbeaa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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